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A three-year battle over a $173 transit ticket has ended with a B.C. Supreme Court judge ordering a college student to pay the fine. In November 2013, Inna Danylyuk, a full-time student at Langara College, was travelling in a bus on Imperial Street in Burnaby when a fare officer asked her for her transit pass. She produced a […]

VICTORIA — Alberta’s NDP premier has failed to persuade B.C.’s NDP leader to support Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Premier Rachel Notley and B.C. Opposition leader John Horgan met in Vancouver Monday evening for dinner to discuss the pipeline, which Notley has argued will bring much-needed jobs and economic development, but which Horgan has vowed to oppose because it represents an […]

VICTORIA — Alberta’s premier began her pipeline sales pitch to British Columbians on Monday by arguing that the economic benefits to the country, and B.C.’s Interior in particular, more than offset the environmental risks posed by additional oil tankers in coastal waters. Rachel Notley told a Postmedia News editorial board in Vancouver that the recently approved $6.8-billion Edmonton-to-Burnaby Kinder […]

A Vancouver city councillor is presenting an emergency resolution to the Green Party of Canada calling for action against the controversial Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. Adriane Carr said she’s calling upon the party to conduct a nationwide campaign to educate Canadians about global warming and the impact of expanding fossil-fuel infrastructure in the […]

VICTORIA — B.C. MLAs will hand over control of their constituency expenses to a central office in the legislature after a fraud involving thousands of taxpayer dollars at a Victoria MLA’s office. An all-party committee of MLAs voted in principle to the change on Thursday, which will eliminate the bulk monthly cash transfers that MLA offices receive from the legislature. Instead, […]

It is convenient but both divisive and wrong to blame foreign buyers for Vancouver’s housing affordability crisis, the head of Canada’s housing authority said Wednesday. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. President Evan Siddall, citing a year of research by the federal Crown corporation, pointed instead to several factors and actors responsible — including critics of […]

Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is getting a significant injection of municipal cash to support economic development. City councillors voted Wednesday to approve more than $350,000 for “quick-start projects” and longer-term studies aimed at improving the economic health of the neighbourhood. Wes Regan, a planner for community economic development at the city, told councillors there is a “pent-up interest” in […]

VICTORIA — Housing sales to foreign buyers more than doubled in Greater Victoria from September to October, prompting the B.C. government to increase its scrutiny of the region’s real estate market. The latest statistics show foreign nationals involved in 55 sales in October compared with 27 the previous month, while their share of total sales jumped […]

Over three decades ago a silent investment in a Chilliwack retirement home allowed Abdul, Shamim and their son, Azim Jamal, to start what would become the largest chain of retirement homes in B.C., Retirement Concepts. Along the way, they became influential in the health-care industry, winning many lucrative contracts with the provincial government to provide subsidized […]

Scientists around the continent are working to unravel the mystery of the deaths of Qila and Aurora, the Vancouver Aquarium’s two belugas that succumbed this month to sudden illness, just days apart. Until scientists can figure out what happened, it is too early to know what the “unprecedented,” back-to-back deaths will mean for the future of one of the aquarium’s marquee attractions, said […]

The death late Friday of Aurora, the last beluga whale in residence at the Vancouver aquaria, provided new fodder for those opposed to keeping whales in captivity. A look at recent events: 1 Two tragic deaths: On Friday, the beloved 30-year-old beluga Aurora died at the Vancouver Aquarium, just 10 days after the death of […]

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